William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Breton Brother and Sister



William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Breton Brother and Sister



William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Breton Brother and Sister
1871
129.2 x 89.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Damien Bartoli and Frederick C. Ross, William Bouguereau, 2015, Reprinted Second edition, plate 97

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 74


Provenance

with Goupil, Paris, 1871, purchased on 12 September, sold on 23 October to Knoedler
with M. Knoedler, New York, 1871, sold on 21 November to Wolfe
John David Wolfe, New York, 1871–d. 1872
his daughter, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York, 1872–d. 1887

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 87.15.32

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